Such as, what did hethink about that Esquire page we told you about last week, which featured a nice photo of the governor and slew of freewheeling quotes in the magazine’s “What I’ve learned” feature? When asked about why he did the interview and photo shoot, which hit newsstands Thursday, Brown was at first stumped.

“Did I do an Esquire photo shoot?” he asked an aide. After being reminded of the setting, he continued: “They said I should. Clint Eastwood did it, so I figured I’d better do it.” (Eastwood, you may recall, appeared on Esquire’s cover last month, sitting on a stool — shortly after he made waves at the Republican National Convention for spending most of his speech talking at an empty stool.)

Speaking of presidential politics, Brown was less chatty when asked about the first debate between President Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney, which was, by all accounts, failure for the president.